Course Description
The economic foundations of global environmental problems, including air and water pollution and the depletion of natural resources, with discussions of alternative (command and market-based) solutions.
Athena Title
Environmental Economics
Prerequisite
ECON 4010
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The class examines the economic foundations of environmental problems, including air and water pollution and the depletion of natural resouces. The course also considers how values might be place on such effects, and discusses different possible alternatives - command-based and market-based - for addressing environmental issues.
Topical Outline
Resources, Environment, and Economic Development Environmental Externalities Resource Allocation Common Property Resources and Public Goods Valuing the Environment Environmental Accounting Pollution Control Population and the Environment Agriculture and Food Energy Renewable Resources World Trade, Development, and the Environment
Syllabus